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Over 75 people dead and over 200 injured after a fire broke out in a temple in Kerala’s Kollam. The fire broke out at the Kollam’s Puttingal temple at around 3.30 am today morning during festivities that involved firecrackers. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Home minister Ramesh Chennithala are …

Last year, it was Swiss Leaks, a global list with over 1,100 Indians with secret bank accounts in HSBC Geneva, which shaped the debate over black money parked overseas. Now come The Panama Papers. More than 11 million documents from the secret files of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm headquartered …

KOLKATA, India — Using saws, small cranes and their bare hands, rescuers searched for survivors early Friday under the crumbled concrete and twisted steel left when an overpass collapsed onto a crowded Kolkata neighbourhood, killing at least 22 people, police said. With more than half the debris cleared by Friday …

Out of 15 council member countries, China has emerged as the only country to block India’s bid at the UN to ban Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) Chief Masood Azhar, the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack. In a dramatic move, China has once again objected to the case while all other members …

BRUSSELS: In the backdrop of terror attacks here last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the dangers posed by terrorism to the world and said the UN should address such major challenges failing which the global body could be rendered irrelevant. Addressing Indian diaspora here, he said it was unfortunate …

Three days after March 4, when the Election Commission announced the dates for the West Bengal election, ruling Trinamool Congress spokesperson Derek O’Brien kicked off poll season scrapping by calling the Congress party a watermelon. The Left Front and the Congress have cobbled together an unofficial electoral alliance in the …

A pre-poll alliance between the Congress and DMK in Tamil Nadu is on the verge of collapse over seat sharing. The Congress is demanding 63 seats, the share it got in the 2011 assembly elections that the two parties fought together. But sources say the DMK is willing to concede …

Until recently striving to build a coalition, the BJP finds itself in a tough, four-cornered contest — if not five-cornered — following the formation of a rival alliance between MDMK leader Vaiko and actor-turned-politician Vijayakanth. The day after the Vaiko-led People’s Welfare Front allied with Vijayakanth’s DMDK, top BJP sources …

Chennai: The Election Commission and State Bank of India have joined hands to deliver coloured voter identity cards to customers at their doorsteps. The new scheme would come into effect from Wednesday, an official release said, adding that interested customers could pay Rs 42 through the EC website and receive coloured voter identity cards at …

Pakistani authorities on Tuesday released a video in which the Indian man who was arrested in Balochistan on March 24 alleges that India’s intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing was involved in separatist activities in the Pakistani province. The video was released at a press conference by the Inter Services …